This sports discipline allows you to evaluate the speed, reflexes and attention of dogs of different breeds. Inspired by this activity, scientists at Google DeepMind created a course for quadrupedal robots called Barkour, which combines barking and parkour.
Unfortunately, at the moment, robot dogs have not achieved success that can be compared to real animals.
The barkour area is only 25 square meters and includes the start and finish areas, grandstands, slide and jump barrier. As with dog agility, robots lose points if they fail, miss or exceed the time limit.
Scientists at DeepMind have developed two approaches to training Barkour robots: a specific approach that trains each skill separately, and a general approach that uses specific training simulations. The first approach showed some advantages.
While the robots’ performance may not meet expectations, the DeepMind team is confident that this is just the beginning and there is plenty of room for growth and improvement.
Source: Ferra
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